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Inside The Criminal Mind
Each podcast will discuss the how, the why and more of a notorious criminal
Episodes
- Inside The Criminal Mind
From Programmer to Kingpin: The Psychology of Paul Le Roux
How does a technically gifted entrepreneur become the leader of a violent international criminal organization? Examine Le Roux's escalating ambition, coercive…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Rehearsal: When Violent Fantasy Becomes Criminal Behavior
Before some serial offenders commit their most serious crimes, they engage in stalking, voyeurism, or repeated intrusions. Drawing on documented offender…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Inside the Mind of the Boston Strangler: How a Serial Predator Operates
What can an offender's victim selection, approach, and movements reveal about his behavior? Through the Boston Strangler case, we examine the psychological…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Adolfo Constanzo: Inside the Mind of the Drug Cult Leader Who Ruled Through Fear
Adolfo Constanzo built a criminal organization around a disturbing combination of drug trafficking, ritual violence, and claims of supernatural power. By…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Inside the Mind of John D. Miller: The Killer Who Taunted a City
For thirty years, the person responsible for April Tinsley's murder remained unidentified while threatening messages intensified fear throughout the Fort Wayne…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Lincoln County War: When Billy the Kid Became a Legend
historical companion episode explores John Tunstall's murder, the Regulators, the Murphy-Dolan business rivalry, and the five-day Battle of Lincoln. It…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
A Killer in the Family: The Road Hill House Murder
A sleeping child disappears from his bed, and the evidence points toward someone within his own household. The Road Hill House murder shocked Victorian England…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Power, Betrayal, and Two Missing Princes: The Psychology of a Royal Mystery
When two young heirs to the English throne disappeared in 1483, suspicion fell upon their uncle, Richard III. The case raises enduring questions about…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Impulsive Criminal Mind: When Thinking Comes After Acting
Why do some individuals act on dangerous impulses even when they understand the consequences? This episode explores the psychology of behavioral inhibition…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Charming, Fearless and Manipulative: When Psychopathic Traits Become Dangerous
Some of the characteristics associated with psychopathy can appear surprisingly adaptive outside criminal settings. Confidence can resemble fearlessness…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Psychology of Prison Gangs: When Belonging Becomes a Survival Strategy
Why would someone who never belonged to a gang on the street become affiliated with one in prison? The answer can involve much more than criminal identity…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Model That Shaped Profiling: Rethinking Organized vs. Disorganized
For decades, criminal profiling has taught that killers split into two types: organized offenders who plan carefully, control their victims, and leave clean…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The First Crossing: When Criminal Fantasy Becomes Action
Most people experience thoughts they would never act upon, but for some offenders there comes a moment when imagination crosses into behavior. This episode of…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
: Silent Decay: What Happens When a Murder Weapon Emits Radiation
When former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko fell mysteriously ill in London, doctors couldn't explain what was happening to him — until forensic…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Behind the Desk: The Real Road to Becoming an FBI Profiler
Before anyone studies a criminal mind for the FBI, they have to survive years most people never see — Quantico, real fieldwork, and a competitive climb toward…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
When a Killer Explains Himself: Insight, Remorse, or Both?
This episode uses Mindhunter's dramatized conversation between a young FBI agent and Ed Kemper to explore a deceptively simple question: does explaining your…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Bad Homes, Bad Outcomes? How Parenting Shapes Future Offenders
Long before a criminal case ever makes headlines, the roots of offending behavior often trace back to childhood. This episode looks at what criminology tells…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Father in the Emergency Room: Toronto, 1999
When Henry Masuka rushed his infant son into St. Michael's Hospital during a severe asthma attack, long ER wait times and systemic roadblocks pushed a…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Behind the Mask of the I-5 Strangler: Decoding Serial Predator Motivations with Dr. Hickey
This episode sits down with renowned criminologist Dr. Eric Hickey to dissect the dark psychological drivers and predatory patterns of Roger Kibbe, the…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Ted Bundy Effect: True Crime, Fan Mail, and the Illusion of Control
From Ted Bundy receiving hundreds of love letters to Richard Ramirez marrying a fan in prison, infamous killers have long commanded an army of romantic…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Mind of a Nomadic Predator: Fantasy, Escalation, and the Urge to Kill
Step inside the dark, escalating internal script that dictates a serial killer’s terrifying evolution. We map out the transition from initial violent fantasy…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Predatory Partner: Deconstructing Transactional Psychopathy
For those with Dark Triad traits, intimacy is not a bond, but a high-stakes con designed for resource extraction and ego gratification. This episode strips…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
Victim Selection as Self-Reflection: Symbolic and Psychological Mechanisms in Offender Victim Choice
we apply rigorous clinical and empirical lenses to criminal behavior, victimology, and investigative psychology. I am your host, and today we examine victim…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Mall of No Return: Johnnie Carol Graham and the 45-Year Silence
On a humid afternoon in 1979, Johnnie Carol Graham walked into a Georgia shopping mall and vanished into thin air. For four decades, her family lived in a…
- Inside The Criminal Mind
The Escalation Curve Nobody Sees: How Serial Offenders Evolve Beyond the Crime
This episode breaks down the hidden psychology behind escalation in serial offenders, showing how crimes evolve not just in severity, but in meaning…
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The Threshold: The Moment Crime Stops Being a Thought
The Moment Crime Stops Being a Thought is a longform audio special examining the neuroscience, forensic psychology, and criminology of the precise moment when…